Who's going to the Bingham Cup in Nashville?

It's over Memorial Day weekend, May 26-30, 2016. www.binghamcup.com It'll be a great sports event and a great party, as usual. Who from here is going?

If anyone 35 yo+ who is not currently on a rugby team wants to join in and play in a match, talk to me about the inaugural Old Boys Competition. Those game(s) are on Sunday afternoon, before the Bingham Cup finals and the closing night ceremonies.

For anyone who might not know or had forgotten, the Bingham Cup is named in honor of now one of the all-time greatest of the Golden Bears of the University of California, Mark Kendall Bingham (May 22, 1970~September 11, 2001), who along with Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, brought down Flight 93 into the fields of Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, thus thwarting the planned destruction by the Islamic terrorists of our nation's Capitol or the White House. "Let's roll."

Sulla saidFor anyone who might not know or had forgotten, the Bingham Cup is named in honor of now one of the all-time greatest of the Golden Bears of the University of California, Mark Kendall Bingham (May 22, 1970~September 11, 2001), who along with Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick, brought down Flight 93 into the fields of Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, thus thwarting the planned destruction by the Islamic terrorists of our nation's Capitol or the White House. "Let's roll."

Good call, Sulla. I'd only add that Mark was gay, as well as a great rugby player. I met him once, briefly, at a gay RuggerFest in SF years - decades? - after I played wing* for my law school team. By all accounts he was as nice a guy as he proved to be a heroic one._____*Decent speed, but no hands whatsoever!

Yes, I never met Mark, but I played with many guys who had played with him (played rugby, I mean, you dirty minded creatures) for many years. Everyone I spoke to said Mark was great fun, a great rugby player, a guy who naturally brought a group (or team) of people together. My rugby club here in NYC was founded because he and my friend Scott Glaessgen had talked about forming one for a while, when 9/11 happened and reminded us all that we're not here for very long.